[Blood of Tyrants]

From the Senate.gov website where the filibuster is discussed at length:

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30360.pdf

The main problem seems to be this:

"There is no motion by which a simple majority of the Senate can stop a debate and allow the Senate to vote in favor of an amendment, a bill or resolution, or any other debatable question."

[Cboldt]

You said, at "4" above The "filibuster" is a sham unless the GOP makes the Rats physically DO a filibuster instead of this "gentlemen's agreement" BS.

I replied that I would like to hear the process that the GOP would use to make the DEMs "do a filibuster" (whatever that means, I assume it means 24/7, but I am not content with that explanation because it doesn't describe the process from start to finish, it only describes one quality of a certain process, that property being continuous Senate sessions until . . . what?)

Your comment then was The main problem seems to be this: "There is no motion by which a simple majority of the Senate can stop a debate and allow the Senate to vote in favor of an amendment, a bill or resolution, or any other debatable question."

Now, I don't see how the fact that there is no motion by which a simple majority (the GOP) can stop a debate is relevant to your original contention that the GOP should somehow make the DEM "physically DO a filibuster." Plus, as noted above, even given a method for the GOP to invoke the property of a continuous Senate session, one should not embark on the path without understanding the process from start to finish.